If you’re wondering why a new poll shows that New Yorkers overwhelmingly support the NYPD, despite the best efforts of The New York Times and the Associated Press to damn the cops as Muslim-bashing brownshirts, consider Thursday’s guilty plea by New York jihadist Jesse Curtis Morton on terror-related charges.

Morton pleaded guilty to using the Internet “to conspire to solicit murder,” spread fear and radicalize others, as head of a group called Revolution Muslim.

He had ties to “a string” of terror cases, the Justice Department said, and to threats against the creators of the “South Park” television series and “an artist tied to the ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ movement,” among others.

Not surprisingly, Morton’s guilty pleas were largely a result of NYPD monitoring.

That would be the same monitoring program that so offends the Times and AP — and therein lies a cautionary tale.

Now, the right to petition is fundamental — so power to the petitioners.

But while most of the Schneiderman signatories are beyond obscure — indeed, many likely are little more than letterheads — some are quite well known.

But not in a good way.

To wit:

* The Council on American-Islamic Relations. Federal documents suggest that CAIR was founded as a front for Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist terror group in Gaza. Several of its members have been linked to terror organizations, including al Qaeda and the Taliban.

In December, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of the founder of CAIR’s Dallas chapter and other officials for their support of terrorism tied to the infamous Holy Land case. CAIR itself was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in that instance.

CAIR often implies that America’s War on Terror is basically a war on Islam — a theme echoed by the groups asking Schneiderman to probe the NYPD.

* The Islamic Circle of North America. Terrorism expert Steven Emerson calls this group the “the American branch of the Jamat Islamiya, the southeast Asian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

At recent conventions, speakers have accused America of waging a global war against Muslims, called for the end of Israel and incited hatred toward Jews, the Anti-Defamation League says.

“Although [ICNA] pretends to be moderate, [its conference speakers] have repeatedly called for the ‘liberation of Palestine,’ the imposition of Sharia worldwide and for Islam to take over America,” says Emerson.

And they’ve “openly praised violent jihadist organizations while railing against US and ‘Zionist conspiracies.’ ”

* The Muslim Alliance in North America. MANA is headed by Siraj Wahhaj, who stuck up for the blind terrorist cleric, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, at his terror trial and is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

* The Muslim Public Affairs Council. MPAC spends much of its time claiming terror cases against Muslims are bogus.